[Brooklyn Attitude]

Not to rain on their parade but 99% of this stuff about RecA has been known for 40 years. My graduate advisor worked on this enzyme in the 60’s. Its one of the best understood DNA repair enyzymes and has been for decades.

[muawiyah]

i doubt they understood the wrapping of a filament around a broken strand in the 60s, or the 70s, 80s, and maybe not the 90s ~ the idea is they KNEW WHAT IT DID, but not the details off HOW IT DID WHAT IT DID.

Next up, WHY DOES IT DO THAT